The two convicted men, Täschner and Brückner, had been serving in the fascist police since 1939. They were deployed in occupied Poland. Between 1941 and 1943, they participated in the persecution and expulsion of hundreds of people, in executions and murders claiming thousands of victims, in the deportation of tens of thousands of people, in arrests for the purpose of forced labor in Germany, and in the destruction of a village. In the process, they also committed several murders themselves. The two men's appeal against their conviction for multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity was rejected.

Art. 6 lit. b., lit. c. of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Art. 8, 91 VerfDDR, §§ 91 II, 93 III StGB, § 1 VI EGStGBuZPO, Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity